The
Uralian Alien More about
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Abductiontranslated by Guerman Grachev

Scientists
may soon unravel the mystery of the Uralian alien, a tiny creature
found near the town of Kyshtym in the Urals. Scientists carried out
five series of laboratory studies investigating the DNA samples of the
creature's biological material. The latest study conducted by a
Moscow-based Institute of Forensic Medicine produced sensational
results.

A gene
discovered in the DNA samples doesn't correspond with any genes
pertaining to humans or anthropoid apes, said Vadim Chernobrov, a
coordinator with the public research center Kosmopoisk.

No gene
samples available at the laboratory match the gene. The experts in DNA
research haven't come across any creatures with such an elongated DNA
molecule, Chernobrov added.

Scientists
have been looking for an explanation of the Kyshtym phenomenon for more
than ten years.

The story
began in the summer of 1996 after a miniature creature was found in the
Chelyabinsk region. The find was soon dubbed the Kyshtym alien. A
local medical examiner who performed an autopsy concluded that the dead
body was neither human nor animal in nature.

Ufologists
regarded the Kyshtym dwarf as a clear-cut case of the extraterrestrial.
The clergy believe the dwarf was a demon.

The
creature was still alive when it was found by an old and barely
literate woman. She was the only one who gave the dwarf a human
name Alioshenka (a diminutive of the Russian name Alexeiâ
d. note).

The curse
of Alioshenka:

The dwarf
from Kyshtym did not do any harm to anybody while he was in the land of
the living. Some really weird things began to happen following the
death of the creature.

The old
lady, a godmother of Alioshenka the Alien, died in a hit-and-run
accident. The woman was knocked down by a car just a few days before a
team of researchers arrived in the town from Moscow.

The body
of the dwarf vanished without a trace.

An
investigator assigned to the case is reported to have handed the corpse
to some perpetrators who walked off with it.

A Japanese
TV crew arrived in Kyshtym to do a documentary on Alioshenka. The
Japanese posted a reward of $200,000 for information on the whereabouts
of the stolen creature. However, their attempts to locate the body of
the dwarf ended in failure.

A minute
piece of the dead body was the only hard evidence the Japanese somehow
managed to recover. The Japanese displayed the object for the benefit
of the cameras.

Academician
Mark Milkhiker looked into the Kyshtym phenomenon on location. He
carefully examined the area in which the dwarf was found. Milkhiker
fell seriously ill shortly after he returned to Moscow. He died of a
sudden heart attack while in hospital.

The above
Vadim Chernobrov was also taken ill four years after the discovery of
the dwarf. A mysterious disease paralyzed him from the waist down.

Doctors
were unable to explain the cause of his disease. It was Chernobrov who
found a piece of fabric used by the old lady for wrapping around the
dwarf on the day she found him.

Were all
those misfortunes a coincidence? Did the alien really put a curse on
everyone who tried to solve his mystery?

It is
clear that Deguchi Masao, a producer of the Japanese documentary on
Alioshenka, fell victim to his own naivety that borders on idiocy. What
did he do? He promised to pay cash to locals who could share their
memories of the dwarf with his crew.

Needless
to say, the news spread across the town like wildfire. Dozens of bums
and drunkards formed a long line around the house where the Japanese
were interviewing eyewitnesses. It took the producer a while to realize
that all those incredible accounts of the event were a fake.

I have
been following the Kyshtym phenomenon since it came to light in 1996. I
visited Kyshtym several times to get firsthand information from those
who were part of the story.

Now it is
about time I dusted off my old notebooks containing real eyewitness
accounts so that we can separate a few grains of truth from a
collection of assorted conjectures and speculations.

I am quite
confident that the mummified body of the creature is not a myth. There
are numerous witnesses who saw the dead body of Alioshenka. Major
(Ret.) Vladimir Bendlin, a former investigator with the police
department of Kyshtym, is the most important witness.

On a rainy
summer morning the police detained one Vladimir Nurtdinov, a local
resident suspected of stealing electrical wire.

The police
confiscated a bundle the man was carrying. Having removed a piece of
red cloth from the object, the police were amazed to see a small
mummified body of a strange creature.

The police
placed the corpse on the cloth and videotaped it. Bendlin noticed on
the spot that the creature looked like an alien, in a way aliens are
usually portrayed in sci-fi movies. The creature looked stone-cold and
lifeless. It felt the same by touch.

Bendlin
opened investigation into the case of an "alien". A dead body found
under the circumstances normally entails a police investigation.

In line
with regulation, the police were supposed to determine the cause of
death of the strange being.

Igor Uskov, an urologist with a local
hospital, was on duty on that
day. A telephone rang in his office about midday. He burst out laughing
when policeman on the other end of the line told him the reason why his
services were required.

"The dead
body of an alien? Stop kidding me, will you?"

"Doctor,
you'd better take a look at it yourself !"

Dr. Uskov
was the first medical professional to examine the body. He reckoned
that it might as well be a human fetus aged some 20 weeks. Dr. Uskov
asked his colleague Irina Ermolayeva, a gynecologist, for a second
opinion. Dr. Ermolayeva agreed that the body looked very much like an
underdeveloped fetus expelled from the womb prematurely i.e. a
miscarriage.

The
doctors verdict was music for Bendlin's eyes. Everything was falling
into place.

The
strange thing was not an alien any more; it was a human fetus, yet
another case of illegal abortion.

The
investigator had dealt with several cases of illegal abortion before.
He expected to close the case right after getting an autopsist's
opinion.

Bendlin
hoped that the autopsist would tell him that the fetus was either
stillborn or too underdeveloped to live, and therefore the case would
be not be a matter for further investigation.

Stanislav
Samoshkin, a chief of morbid anatomy department at the Kyshtym
hospital, didn't smile and make cheesy jokes about aliens when the
policemen brought the creature to his office.

He
performed a thorough autopsy on the body of the dwarf. And then he
announced that the creature was neither a human being nor an animal.
According to him, it was some new life form.

I met Dr.
Samoshkin several years after the Kyshtym dwarf caused a worldwide
sensation. According to him, he never doubted the conclusion he reached
on that day.

The
creature was not by any means a human being. The human skull consists
of six bones. The skull of that creature was made up of 4 bones. There
were other differences in the skeleton structure. Those anomalies
didn't look like any congenital malformations known to
date, Dr. Samoshkin said.